Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. You walk into a powwow on creativity, and who shows up but Denzel Washington? "After a while, they don't make you nervous anymore," says Attica Locke, 25, of Los Angeles. "It's not that I got used to seeing stars whose work I respect. It's that I got used to me and the belief that my viewpoint was valid...
...signed on with the fledgling outfit, says Phillips, and the other nine may soon follow. Why? "The umpires feel underappreciated, and they think they?ll have a stronger negotiating position if they?re selling their services to the league, rather than working as employees." More leverage, more benefits, more respect ?- and, of course, more money. "Profit-sharing could even be a part of this down the road," says Baumohl. "The teams are individual companies, who share in the league revenues -- why not the umps?" The umpires? current collective bargaining agreement (which doesn?t allow them to strike, prompting this maneuver...
...Oscar-winning documentary and The Music of My Heart, a Miramax film starring Meryl Streep, to be released in October. "When I first observed Roberta in class, I thought she was very hard on her kids," recalls Streep. "But her rationale was that it's a way of according respect to the discipline...
...recent Thursday evening, Roberta got her yearly opportunity to demand respect for her students. About 175 empty violin cases were stacked against the walls of the gym at Central Park East I elementary school, and their young owners, ages 5 and up, formed neat rows on the basketball court. They shifted nervously, awaiting their cue to enter the packed auditorium. "When you get onstage, fix your feet and your bows!" yelled Roberta. "Who do you watch? Your mother...
...Ebert. Well, now we know ?- sort of. In September, the Disney-syndicated series will change its name from "Siskel & Ebert" to "Roger Ebert & the Movies," with new theme music and rotating guest critics. Yet to be determined: whether Ebert will let colleagues give the digital seal of approval. "In respect to Gene, we're not allowing other people to use the thumbs right now," says Mary Kellogg, the Disney exec overseeing the show. "Things may change this fall, but for the time being those sitting across the aisle should not have access to the thumbs." Meanwhile, competing programmers smell...